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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again."
"Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there is nothing left to explain. It's just irrational to insist that sentience remains unexplained after all the manifestations of sentience have been accounted for, just because the computations don't have anything sentient in them. It's like insisting that wetness remains unexplained even after all the manifestations of wetness have been accounted for, because moving molecules aren't wet."
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
"The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with."
"You are not who you say you are but rather what you do. Look at what it is that you do. If you don't like what you see: decide what you would like to see instead. Make those changes. Realize your potential. Harness your power. Seize every opportunity and do what it is that allows you to be true to yourself. Don't deny yourself your path. Only you can decide. Only you have that power. Only you are living your life."
"All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style."
"The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally."
"There's a time when it all comes together-what you long for and what you fear-and as tentative as you may feel, you're driven to continue. At that point, the need to forge ahead is the only option, and your direction is defined despite yourself."
"Beauvoir was quiet, watching the Chief, taking in the gleam in his eye, the enthusiasm as he described what he'd found. Not the physical landscape, but the emotional. The intellectual.Many might have thought the Chief Inspector was a hunter. He tracked down killers. But Jean Guy knew he wasn't that. Chief Inspector Gama he was an explorer by nature. He was never happier than when he was pushing the boundaries, exploring the internal terrain. Areas even the person themselves hadn't explored. Had never examined. Probably because it was too scary."
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
"The government is ethics rape in perpetuity."
"People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them."
"I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons."
"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."
"I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."
"It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words."
"Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation."
"Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you."
"The single biggest thing I've done to improve my relationship with others, was to improve the relationship I have with myself. I became lovable when I was able to love myself. No one can love you, if you don't love you. Accept, nurture and love yourself as you are. You'll be amazed how much it will also change how others perceive you."
"When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum."
"Shane, in case we don't, don't come out of this, I wanted to say. He glanced over at her, and she felt her whole body warm from it. She remembered that look. It made her feel naked inside and out, but not in a creepy kind of way. In a way that felt. Free. "If what you say is true, and I guess it has to be, I think I know why we're together, he said. "I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome."
"This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness."
"Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch..."
"If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted."
"The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do."
"That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know.""Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind.""I so wish you hadn't said that."
"Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues."
"This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that."
"Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly."
"You must be grounded to take flight."
"I was tired of her getting away with being so young."
"The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights."
"The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving."
"Science is not a democracy. Therefore to try to pass of global warming as real just because "98% of scientists say they agree" makes no sense at all. If 98% of psychiatrists said that all mentally ill people needed lobotomized, does that make it true? If 98% of your friends jumped off a building, would you jump, too?"
"Communication is the lifeblood of an organization."
"The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else."
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